Judith Norman lectures at Trinity University in Texas. Alistair Welchman has studied philosophy, politics and cognitive science at the University of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex. Alistair Welchman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He is the co-translator of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation (CUP, forthcoming).

• Contributors: Manfred Frank (University of Tubingen), Jurgen Habermas (University of Frankfurt, Northwestern University), Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England), Joseph Lawrence (College of Holy Cross, Mass.), Odo Marquard (University of Giessen), Judith Norman (Trinity University, Texas), Alberto Toscano (University of Warwick), Michael Vater (Yale University), Alistair Welchman, Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana).

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